From:	Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Bash as the only shell
Date:	Mon, 18 May 1998 15:59:43 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 May 1998, arkane wrote:
> 
> > I seem to remember something about a problem with cwsdpmi not being able
> > to manage swap space across multiple applications.
> 
> I'm not aware of any problems in this context.  I routinely use
> CWSDPMI to run DJGPP programs nested as deep as 9 levels, some of
> which use quite a lot of memory, and I never had any problems related
> to the swap file.

"Multiple applications" was referring to multiple DOS sessions using
Desqview, where CSWDPMI was being loaded in each session (because each
session was running a DJGPP application) and CWSDPMI got confused
because it wasn't designed to be run multiple times simultaneously.

I now use QDPMI (part of the QEMM memory manager) loaded before DesqView
and no problems (except if I want to run Borland C++, I have to turn
DPMI off first because it wants to use its own memory manager).

AFAIK if you're not doing that then there's no problem with CWSDPMI at
all.

Chris C

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